"My ideal job consists of presenting weather forecasts for a news station in Dallas, Texas. I wish to work in Dallas because it is close to where I grew up."

Chief Meteorologist David Finfrock serves as chair of the committee for the Scholarship program. Thanks to a generous donation from NBC DFW/KXAS-TV, the Lone Star Emmy Educational Foundation developed an annual college scholarship fund in the memory of Harold Taft, who served as Chief Meteorologist at KXAS-TV from 1949 until 1991.

The inaugural winner was Texas A&M graduate Jorge Torres, who is now a meteorologist at KVIA-TV in El Paso, Texas.

Lauryn will be recognized at the Lone Star Emmy Awards Gala at Gilley's in Dallas on Saturday October 16, 2010.